WoRMS name details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 39-40 [details]
source of synonymy
Blake, James A. (1988). New species and records of Phyllodocidae (Polychaeta) from Georges Bank and other areas of the western North Atlantic. <em>Sarsia.</em> 73 (4): 245-257., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1988.10413410 page(s): 245-247; note: with Clavodoce Hartman, 1936, after revision of holotype [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated by the authors. The name Cirrodoce is composed by the Latin noun cirrus, meaning 'filament', 'tendril' or 'tendril-like appendage', and, apparently, the ending of the name of the type genus of the family Phyllodocidae, Phyllodoce Lamarck, 1818 (a Nereid in Greek mythology). It refers presumably to the shape of the dorsal cirri of the new phyllodocid genus: "Dorsal cirri are cirriform" (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971: 39). [details]
Synonymy From Blake (1988: 246): "Cirrodoce cristata was described by Hartman & Fauchald (1971) as a new genus and species which was said to differ from other phyllodocids in having two instead of four frontal antennae and very large eyes. An examination of the holotype has revealed that the distinct scars of four frontal antennae and one medial antenna are present along with scars of four pairs of tentacular cirri. Most of these structures and the dorsal parapodial cirri have been lost. This specimen has been compared carefully with the new specimens from Georges Bank and there is no doubt that they all represent the same species and should be referred to the genus Clavadoce Hartman, 1936." [details]
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